Well, sure, it's total fantasy starring the author-insert mary stu who is the best and most smartest special nerd in the world. It's reddit's 50 shades of grey. It's not quite that level of awful, and I enjoyed reading it, but it hits all the same feel-good fan fiction tropes just in another genre.

Right, you get a ton of "Sharpton is the real racist!1" posts because reddit finally found someone more racist than them and they fucking love it. There's a lot of genuine criticism there, to be sure, but nothing gets that blood pumping like getting to yell at a guy for the thing you secretly are, because that's how you deflate your cognitive dissonance about being a good liberal or libertarian or whatever but also thinking black people are less than you.

Yeah, there's no winner here. Sharpton is a total piece of shit-- but reddit is also super racist, so when there's a "safe" target like this you see a TON of vitriol. Look at these comments, you'd think the guy was a serial rapist rather than a middling conman who owes back taxes.

Since when are liberals against taxes? Jesus Christ, the length people go to to construct false equivalences and pretend the parties are "the same" in order to prove some idiotic point about hypocrisy...

Is it so you can feel superior to both sides? I just don't really get it.

If not, what you've said here is misleading at best and more likely total bullshit and you're either an embittered liberal or above-it-all libertarian just interested in feeling superior to everyone who picks a side.

For someone who thinks a lot about policy you talk a lot about personality.